A Stanley-Boyd Class of 1977 graduate has a new movie out—not her first.
Lisa Long, who served as Miss Stanley in high school and whose credits include several Hollywood films, plays Eileen Stratton in “The Wedding in the Hamptons,” a romantic comedy set in New York.
The daughter of Delores and Allan Long, she has a sister named Renee and brother named Richard. Friends in the Stanley-Boyd area include Lisa Carter, Heidi Wold, and Janet Samplawski-Dejung.
Long took time out recently to share more on her latest film and acting career.
Regarding “The Wedding in the Hamptons,” Long said that “I play a crazy, nutty P.R. role publicist” named Eileen Stratton.
Making her entrance around eight minutes into the one-and-a-half-hour romantic comedy, Long helps set the story’s basic conflict in motion when she mistakes New York City dress store designer Jenna Preston (Maddison Bullock) for prominent social media influencer Lindsey Arnold (Margie Mays), to whom Preston was delivering a set of dresses for a wedding. When Arnold later bails on the wedding for an invitation to Europe, the look-a-like dress designer ends up being cast in the social media influencer’s role for several days, following an unsuccessful attempt to leave. Along the way, Stratton coordinates the society wedding’s P.R. campaign, with appearance versus reality a major story theme.
Available on Peacock as well as Amazon Prime where it has a rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars, “The Wedding in the Hamptons” is written by Rickie Castenada and Megan Hocking, being directed by Louise Alston.
As to Long, her film credits don’t end there, including a role as Tom Hank’s sister in the film “Cast Away.” Other film credits include two Christmas movies entitled “The Recipe Files” and “Christmas with the Foxes,” also voicing over 170 commercials and animated characters. Her T.V. roles have included episode appearances on A.P. Bio and Law and Order: LA.
“I graduated from high school and went to Minneapolis,” she said of how it all began. “I always had the goal of getting to California.”
